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vcenter on esxi on KVM on RHEL8
by Nicholas Hardiman 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

I tried something new at the weekend - I created a lab for ansible experiments. One PC, two ESXi VMs, some nested guests. Is this a sensible thing to attempt? vcenter ubuntu1 ubuntu2 ------- ------- ------- ESXi1 ESXI2 ---------------- ------------- KVM -------------------------------- RHEL 8 -------------------------------- ASUS PN50 Everything within ESXi1 works fine, but communication with the outside world is not fine. Before I get into troubleshooting details, I thought I'd just check if this is a reasonable thing to do, or if I'm heading in the wrong direction. Thanks, Nick -- Nick Hardiman, RHCA Senior Consultant Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com/> nhardima(a)redhat.com M: 07585-206195 Upcoming PTO: - Upcoming Training: Mon 8 - Fri 12 March <https://www.redhat.com/>

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Packets dropped by virtual NICs
by Silvia Fichera 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

Hi all, I want to use tc qdisc settings in a network coposed of several qemu VMs, connected through bridges and tap interfaces. I generate traffic with a spirent. Everything is fine when the scheduling discipline is not installed but when I run the command to set taprio queues traffic on the VM's NIC the traffic is dropped, i can send max 1mbps. I think that there is something missing in the virtual NIC configuration or setup. With ethtool i can see that queues are configured. I've also noticed the BQL equals to 0, that is different than the physical machine (BQL=18600) where everything works correctly. I've read that it could be because NIC drivers do not support that setting. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks you all Silvia

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Question about the Qos support status for different type interfaces
by Yalan Zhang 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

Hi there, I have a question about the Qos support status for different type interfaces. Some types of interface do not support Qos, such as hostdev, user type, mcast type, but the behavior are different, for hostdev, the guest can not start with a meaningful error message, but for other types, vm can start successfully with a warning message in the libvirtd log. I doubt that if it is necessary to keep the behavior consistent for these different types? There are 2 history bugs for them, I should have thought further and asked early when testing the bugs. Bug 1319044 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319044> - log error when <bandwidth> requested on a <interface type='hostdev'> Bug 1524230 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524230> - vhostuser type interface do not support bandwidth, but no warning message Thank you for looking into this and very appreciate your feedback! 1. start vm with user type interface set with Qos: <interface type='user'> <mac address='52:54:00:3e:ec:14'/> <bandwidth> <inbound average='1000' peak='5000' burst='5120'/> <outbound average='128' peak='256' burst='256'/> </bandwidth> <model type='rtl8139'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x07' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </interface> # cat /var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log | grep bandwidth 2021-03-26 10:47:11.452+0000: 20185: warning : qemuBuildInterfaceCommandLine:8223 : setting bandwidth on interfaces of type 'user' is not implemented yet 2. start with hostdev type interface with Qos setting: <interface type='hostdev' managed='yes'> <mac address='52:54:00:07:27:b0'/> <source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x82' slot='0x10' function='0x6'/> </source> <bandwidth> <inbound average='1000' peak='5000' burst='5120'/> <outbound average='128' peak='256' burst='256'/> </bandwidth> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </interface> # virsh start rh error: Failed to start domain 'rh' error: unsupported configuration: interface 52:54:00:07:27:b0 - bandwidth settings are not supported for hostdev interfaces ------- Best Regards, Yalan Zhang IRC: yalzhang

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Incremental backup utility
by Michael Ablassmeier 28 Mar '21

28 Mar '21

hi users, i have started a project on github that aims to create a small backup utility, supporting the new changed block tracking features. If anyone wants to give it a try and has some suggestions, here is the link: https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup bye, - michael

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infinite lease time
by Francesc Guasch 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Hi. First of all thanks for this great project and specially for keeping the Perl library. I need to keep the IP address of the virtual machines the same as long as possible. dnsmasq provides a setting for lease time. It can be set to infinite, but not from within libvirt. I found this patch from 2016. > https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-October/msg00561.html But it looks like it never made to libvirt. Some time ago I made it work changing dnsmasq/default.conf. Then we made it immutable with chattr. This no longer works because libvirt refuses to start dnsmasq unless it can write to it. Fair enough. I've seen I can add manual IP addresses as stated here: https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking This is ok, but it would be a considerable amount of work, requiring lots of manual labour. Is there a way to set the lease time from libvirt ? Thank you !

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virsh capabilities does not include qemu
by shafnamol N 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Hi, I am new to Libvirt and Qemu.I have installed Libvirt 7.1.0 and qemu-kvm 4.2.0. I configured and built libvirt based on instructions from https://libvirt.org/compiling.html. But when i tried to create a VM using virsh it shows the following error: # virsh create /home/abc.xml error: Failed to create domain from /home/abc.xml error: invalid argument: could not find capabilities for arch=x86_64 domaintype=kvm When i check the hypervisor capabilities ,it doest show qemu in guest domain type. # virsh capabilities .................................... ..................................... </host> <guest> <os_type>exe</os_type> <arch name='x86_64'> <wordsize>64</wordsize> <emulator>/usr/local/libexec/libvirt_lxc</emulator> <domain type='lxc'/> </arch> </guest> <guest> <os_type>exe</os_type> <arch name='i686'> <wordsize>32</wordsize> <emulator>/usr/local/libexec/libvirt_lxc</emulator> <domain type='lxc'/> </arch> </guest> </capabilities> I have restarted libvirt to get the qemu support,but it is not shown in capabilities list.What will be the problem? Thanks for the help in advance....

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Access to an OCFS2 Partition outside the VM
by Lentes, Bernd 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

Hi, i'm thinking about installing two Ubuntu versions on one pc, one as a host system with KVM, the other in a virtual domain. I need access from both to several OCFS2 partitions with big amount of data. The partitions are on harddisks attached to that pc. Is it possible to access an OCFS2 partition which is outside the domain ? And if yes how can i do that ? I know that i have to configure OCFS2 and that i need DLM. Buth systems have network, that shouldn't be the problem. Bernd -- Bernd Lentes System Administrator Institute for Metabolism and Cell Death (MCD) Building 25 - office 122 HelmholtzZentrum München bernd.lentes(a)helmholtz-muenchen.de phone: +49 89 3187 1241 phone: +49 89 3187 3827 fax: +49 89 3187 2294 http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/mcd Helmholtz Zentrum MÃ¼nchen Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg www.helmholtz-muenchen.de Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende: MinDir.in Prof. Dr. Veronika von Messling Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Matthias Tschoep, Kerstin Guenther Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 6466 USt-IdNr: DE 129521671

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Updating dnsmasq options with virsh net-update
by Alex Crawford 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

I'm trying to take advantage of libvirt's support for passing through options to dnsmasq <https://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html#elementsNamespaces>, but I'm having trouble getting it to take effect. I have a network already created and I'm trying to use net-update to add the options, but it's not clear to me what section I should specify. By the way, is there a good way to list the available sections? I've been resorting to reading the code <https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/blob/18d0f2f9569edf3c26d912a7d8974a54b…>. Working in a different direction, I tried using net-edit to make the changes but they seem to have been silently discarded: $ virsh -c qemu:///system net-edit crawford-libvirt-67v2h Network crawford-libvirt-67v2h XML configuration edited. $ virsh -c qemu:///system net-dumpxml crawford-libvirt-67v2h | grep --count <my changes> 0 Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or how this feature was intended to be used? Thank you. -Alex

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Question about migrate the vm with host-passthrough cpu
by Guoyi Tu 17 Mar '21

17 Mar '21

Hi there, Sorry to bother you, but could I ask you a question about the live migration of virtual machine configured with host-passthough cpu, it confuse me a lot. Here i have two hosts with different cpu, and the cpu feature set of old host is subset of the new one (by virsh cpu-compare). If the vm was first started on the old host,is it safe to migrate the vm between the two hosts back and forth with the vm always keep running? I've test the case in my environment, and the migration succeeds, the cpu family/model/stepping and features of lscpu in Guest OS is the same. -- Best Regards, Guoyi Tu

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Using cgroups in QEMU hooks
by Melissa Nuño 17 Mar '21

17 Mar '21

Hi all, I'm creating a device during the prepare hook, and would like to add it to the device.allow file for the VM. The cgroup doesn't exist during the prepare hook or the start hook and will fail with an "Operation not permitted" error. I can add the expected path to qemu.conf and restart libvirtd, but this isn't very flexible since I'd have to do it for each device for each VM I create. All of the other libvirt cgroups seem to allow all devices, so I'm not seeing where the VM cgroup is getting its initial list. Is there a way to access the cgroup for a VM before it has started? I can't even predict where it should be since it contains the domain ID. Thanks!

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